Battlefield sport director Marcus Lehto doesn’t have “something optimistic” to say about EA after departing from the writer’s Ridgeline Video games earlier this yr. Additionally identified for being a co-creator of the unique Halo whereas at Bungie, Lehto left EA and Ridgeline simply as EA introduced it was gutting 5% of its workforce alongside the complete closure of the studio.
Ridgeline Video games was formally revealed in 2022, with Lehto set to steer the event of a single-player Battlefield sport following Battlefield 2042, with fellow EA studio Ripple Impact engaged on an even bigger Battlefield mission. Lehto left EA and the FPS sport earlier this yr, proper as EA laid off 5% of its workforce, or round 670 individuals.
These layoffs additionally resulted within the closure of Ridgeline Video games, with the single-player Battlefield expertise transferring over to Criterion. After saying he left EA “alone accord” again in February 2024, Lehto has now launched one other brief assertion on his departure.
“Not been saying a lot right here since I don’t have something optimistic to say about EA, my current departure, and the way so many, together with my staff, are struggling because of the business sweeping layoffs,” Lehto says.
This follows one other assertion from February when Lehto stated he was “Intestine punched to see EA lay off my staff. So many very proficient devs who had been extremely beneficial to the Battlefield franchise.”
After Battlefield 2042, EA was seeking to reinvigorate its multiplayer FPS collection, with Ridgeline’s single-player expertise and the complete Battlefield from Ripple Impact. A number of EA cellular video games will stop lively improvement alongside the in-development Star Wars FPS alongside the layoffs – which was rumored to be primarily based on The Mandalorian.
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